>Cutting the springs sounds like a good idea. I used to work for a >steel company that sold steel for many purposes, including auto springs. >I had to learn about them. I even had to analyze losses in the process >which rolled the mild steel rods and the spring companies that made >springs out of the mild steel rods. Porsche 911 springs are probably >heated treated, high alloy steel. My bet is that vanagon springs are mild >steel. > The Arc of the Covenant, they are not. If I screw it up, H&R sells >lowered replacements for 200 bucks for set of 4. NO springs are mild steel. Mild steel coils might support your van briefly... until you hit a bump, then they will compress... and not reextend, then fall out of the retainers. That will at minimum bugger your dampers (shame if you've just fitted a nice new set of orange Konis). Cutting springs does work, but first you'd have to make sure that the cut ends will properly seat in the retainers. And that you can cut the ends at just the right angle, or HAVE them cut by a machine shop. You will find the shortened result somewhat stiffer than they were at full length. For myself, I'd like a set of slightly stiffer springs with stock length. Might have a local spring shop look at making a set... some day. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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